World first ILUC risk certification for UPM Biofuels

UPM Biofuels has secured the world’s first RSB (Roundtable of Sustainable Biomaterials) low ILUC (indirect land use change) risk certification. The certificate was received for crude tall oil (extracted from wood pulp), the feedstock used for UPM BioVerno renewable fuels production at the Lappeenranta biorefinery in Finland, and for UPM's cultivation of the Brassica carinata oil crop in Uruguay. RSB is a peer-reviewed standard for biomaterials and is one of the European Commission's approved voluntary schemes used to show compliance with the EU Renewable Energy Directive’s sustainability criteria. RSB is the first standard to utilise a low ILUC-risk module for biomass certification.